My CV
EDUCATION
1979 Graduate courses, University of Cincinnati College of Education
1976 M.A. in English, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
1974 B.A. in English Education, University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor Emeritus of English, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, 2015-present
Professor of English, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College (Formerly Raymond Walters College), 1995-2015
Associate Professor of English, University of Cincinnati—Raymond Walters College, 1986-1995
Assistant Professor of English, University of Cincinnati—Raymond Walters College, 1981-1986
Instructor of English, University of Cincinnati Raymond Walters College, 1976-1981
COURSES DESIGNED AND TAUGHT
English 2001, 2002, 201, 202, 203 (Topics in Literature): (“Bob Dylan,” “Bob Dylan and the Beatles,” “Literature of Evolution,” “Cultural Clash In the Aftermath of September 11,” “Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Lori Moore,” “Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s,” “Hemingway and Fitzgerald in the 1920s,” “James Joyce & D.H. Lawrence,” “James Joyce,” “Existentialism in Kafka and Camus,” “Ibsen, Strindberg, & Chekhov”)
Creative Writing I, II: Fiction, Drama, Poetry
English 1071, 1072, 171, 172, 173 (Student News Workshop)
English 1001, 101: English Composition I
English 102: English Composition II
English 2089, 289: Intermediate English Composition
English Study Abroad: “Shakespeare: Selected Tragedies and Comedies” (1997); “James Joyce’s Ulysses” (2004), “Creative Writing: The Evolutionary Self” (2008), “Creative Writing: The Beatles and the Revolution of the 1960s” (2011, 2015)
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Reading Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. Co-authored with Robert W. Lewis. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2019.
One Small Town, One Crazy Coach: The Ireland Spuds and the 1963 Indiana High School Basketball Season, (creative non-fiction), Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“‘Let Us Not Pry With Simian Fingers’: William Jennings Bryan, H.L. Mencken, and Charles Darwin in The Sun Also Rises.” In The Routledge Companion to Ernest Hemingway. Eds. Verna Kale. Routledge. Forthcoming.
“Religious Atheists: W.H. Hudson, Death, and Post-humanism in Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden.” In Ernest Hemingway and Post-humanism. Eds. Ryan Hediger and Marcos Norris. Edinburgh UP (2025): 78-95.
“A Darwinian Reading of Hemingway’s ‘Big Two-Hearted River’: The Re-Enchantment of Nick Adams?’” in Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World. Eds. Kevin Maier. Kent State UP (2018): 57-71.
“‘What If You Are Not Built That Way?’ H.G. Wells and The Conflict of Science and Faith in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.” In Hemingway and Italy: 21st Century Perspectives. Eds. Mark Cirino and Mark P. Ott. Gainesville: University Press of Florida (2017): 108-126.
“Is Your Love in Vain: Dialectical Dilemmas in Bob Dylan’s Recent Love Songs.” Co-authored with Don O’Meara. In The Dylan Companion. Eds. Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman (London: MacMillan, 1990, 2000): 33-55.
REFEREED ARTICLES
“‘Gradually and Then Suddenly’: Ernest Hemingway in Korea,” co-authored with Wook-Dong Kim. The Hemingway ReviewVolume 44 No. 2, Spring 2025, pp. 75-95.
“‘I Did Not Know That Then’: One True Sentence in A Farewell to Arms,” part of “‘The Truest Sentence That You Know’: Four True Sentences by Ernest Hemingway,” co-authored with Katherine Palmer, John Beall, and Donald A. Daiker. MidAmerica, Vol. 50, 2023, pp. 93-97.
“‘I Fixed the Dates’ and Other Details: The Logic and Illogic of Chronology and Topography in Frederic Henry’s Caporetto Retreat.” The Hemingway Review Vol. 39 No. 2, Spring 2020, pp. 9-23.
“The Doctor and the Doctor’s Son: Clarence Hemingway and the Conflict of Science and Faith.” Midwestern Miscellany. Vol. 47, Spring/Fall 2019, pp. 29-48.
“Il capellano di Addio alle armi: Ettore Moretti o Nick Nerone.” Co-authored with Vincenzo Di Nardo. Ácoma, no. 15 New Series, Autumn-Winter 2018, pp. 134-141.
“Navigating Uncharted Waters: Study Abroad Pre-Departure Activities and the Two-Year College Student.” Co-authored with Angie L. Woods, Susan M. Sipple, and Mark R. M. Otten. Community College Journal of Research and Practice (10 November 2016) <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2016.1242439>.
“Agassiz or Darwin: Faith and Science in Hemingway’s High School Zoology Class,” The Hemingway Review Vol. 32 No. 2, Spring 2013, pp. 7-27.
“Is Your Love in Vain: Dialectical Dilemmas in Bob Dylan’s Recent Love Songs,” (co-authored with Don O’Meara) Popular Music, Cambridge University Press, England, Vol. 7 No. 1, January 1988, pp. 35-50.
“The Walrus and the Deacon: John Lennon’s Debt to Lewis Carroll,” Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 18 No. 1, Fall 1984, pp. 19-29.
“Fixin’ to Die: The Death Theme in the Music of Bob Dylan,” Popular Music and Society, Vol 8 Nos. 3-4, Summer 1983, pp. 103-116.
“Syntactic Maturity and Grading: A Correlational Study,” Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), (July 1981) <http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED207071.pdf>.
PODCAST
“Rinaldi in A Farewell To Arms,” One True Podcast (Released November 2023).
BOOK REVIEWS
“Book Review of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Vol. 5.” Hemingway Review (Fall, 2020).
“Book Review of The Critics and Hemingway, 1924-2014: Shaping an American Literary Icon,” by Laurence W. Mazzeno, Hemingway Review 36.1 (Fall 2016): 111-113.
“Book Review of Darwin the Writer, by George Levine,” for Reports for the National Center for Science Education, 33.1, (Jan.-Feb. 2013): 7.1-7.3.
MUSIC ALBUMS
Ship of Fools. Collection of seven original songs and one cover song. Self-published, Cincinnati: Sleeping Dog Records, 2020.
Begin 2. Collection of 13 original songs. Self-published, Cincinnati: Sleeping Dog Records, 2011.
Flood Wall. Collection of 15 original songs. Self-published, Cincinnati: Sleeping Dog Records, 1991.
Kangaroo. Collection of 10 original songs. Self-published, Cincinnati: Sleeping Dog Records, 1986.
MUSIC SINGLES
“Grace Under Pressure,” forthcoming.
“The End of Something,” forthcoming.
“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” forthcoming.
“Rinaldi and the Priest,” forthcoming.
“Christmas in Havana,” December 2024.
“Leonard’s Tower,” self-published, March 2023.
“We All Live In Ukraine,” self-published, April 1, 2022.
“Republican Sex,” self-published, words co-written with Sam Turner, music, arrangement, and production by me. September 1, 2020.
“Uncle Carl’s Farm Pond,” June 21, 2020.
“Sweet John Prine (Stuck Inside Bucyrus With the Covid Blues Again,” original song, self-published, words, music, arrangement and production. April 20, 2020.
“You’re Gonna Make Us Lonesome When You Go,” Bob Dylan parody, song lyrics in Blue Ash Review, 2012
“Ballad of Gregory Gregory,” song lyrics, Blue Ash Review, 2009
“Blacksburg,” song lyrics, Blue Ash Review, 2008
“City of Flesh,” song lyrics, Blue Ash Review, 2006
“Stay Alive,” music video, collaboration with H. Michael Sanders, 1986
POEMS
“The Bike Race,” in Shooting Stars at Sky, ed. Mike Bonifer, Mama’s Kitchen Press, 2025.
“Tao of Love,” poem, Blue Ash Review, 2004
GALLERY EXHIBITION
Gaps and Overlaps: Collaborative Works by UCBA Faculty, UCBA Gallery, March 25-May 1, 2015. My contributions included two music videos for my original song recordings in collaboration with video artist Matt Bennet: “Ship of Fools” and “Rich Man”
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Diamonds and Rust: The Lives, Times, and Artistry of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Draft in progress.
Fear and Desire, novel, draft completed, revision in progress.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“‘Goddam Puritans’: What’s Dayton, Ohio, Doing in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises?” Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Annual Symposium, East Lansing, MI, May 29, 2025.
“‘Simian Fingers’: William Jennings Bryan, H.L. Mencken, and Charles Darwin in The Sun Also Rises.” Hemingway Society International Conference, San Sebastien/Bilbao, Spain, July 15, 2024.
“‘A Very Sinister Book’: W.H. Hudson’s The Purple Land in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.” Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Annual Symposium, East Lansing, MI, May 28, 2024.
“‘I Did Not Know That Then’: One True Sentence in A Farewell to Arms.” Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Annual Symposium, East Lansing, MI, June 2, 2023.
“Charles Darwin and the Fiction of Ernest Hemingway.” University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, Department of Biology, April 6, 2023.
“‘You Reason It Out, Tenente’: How Hemingway, Michael Reynolds, and I All Got the Topography Wrong.” Hemingway Society International Conference, Sheridan, Wyoming, July 19, 2022.
“Written in My Soul: The Anatomy of Bob Dylan’s ‘Tangled Up In Blue.” Lecture for University of Evansville Literary Festival, April 2021.
“Catherine Barkley: Much More Than a Sex Kitten.” Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Annual Conference, East Lansing, MI, May 18, 2019.
“A Farewell to Arms: Hemingway’s Sources for the Abruzzi, the Priest, and Ettore Moretti.” With Vincenzo Di Nardo. Hemingway Society International Conference, Paris, France, July 25, 2018.
“Like a Red Silk Handkerchief: Hemingway’s Accounts of Out-of-Body Experiences,” Hemingway Society International Conference, Paris, France, July 25, 2018.
“Flaubert’s Influence on A Farewell to Arms,” Hemingway Society International Conference, Paris, France, July 25, 2018.
“Like a Red Silk Handkerchief: Hemingway’s Accounts of Out-of-Body Experiences,” Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Annual Conference, East Lansing, MI, June 1, 2018.
“The Education of Doctor Henry Adams: Balancing Faith and Science in Hemingway’s ‘The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife.’” Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Annual Conference, East Lansing, MI, June 3, 2017.
“Report on Manuscript for Reading Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.” Presented at Hemingway Society International Conference, Oak Park, Illinois, July 22, 2016.
“The Doctor and the Doctor’s Son: Clarence Hemingway and the Conflict of Science and Faith.” Presented at Hemingway Society International Conference, Oak Park, Illinois, July 21, 2016.
“UCBA Creative Arts Faculty Learning Community” (with Rhonda Petit, Jody Ballah, Matt Bennett, Ted Ferdinand, David Freeman, David Hartz, Rita Kuma, Robert Murdock, Kevin Oberlin, Mike Sanders, Claudia Skutar, and Sue Sipple), Kentucky Philological Association, Northern Kentucky University, March 6, 2015.
“’What If You Are Not Built That Way: H.G. Wells and The Conflict of Science and Faith in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms,” Hemingway Society International Conference, Venice, Italy, June 26, 2014.
“No Innocents Abroad: Pre-Trip Activities & Study Preparedness,” co-presented with Sue Sipple, Angie Woods, Eric Anderson, and Mark Otten, at Annual Conference of Midwest Institute of International and Intercultural Studies, Lorraine Community College, Ohio, April 6, 2013.
“A Darwinian Reading of Hemingway’s ‘Big Two-Hearted River’: The Re-Enchantment of Nick Adams?’” Presented at Hemingway Society International Conference, Petoskey, Michigan, June 20, 2012.
“Falsely Accused: Hemingway's Esteem for W.H. Hudson.” Presented at Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 24, 2012.
“Just Like Bob and the Beatles: The Story of a Competitive and Creative Friendship Between Bob Dylan and the Beatles.” Presented at Annual Conference of the Popular Culture Association, Boston, MA, April 13, 2012.
“Study Abroad Field Trips and Academic Success.” Co-presented with Mark Otten, at Conference of Midwest Institute of International and Intercultural Education, St. Louis, MO, March 30, 2012.
“Journey to Success: Pre-trip Activities and Study Abroad.” Co-presented with Sue Sipple, Angie Woods, Jody Ballah, and Mark Otten, at NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Region VI Conference, Louisville, KY, November 8, 2011.
“Burning Gardens: W. H. Hudson in Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden.” Presented at AURCO Annual Conference, Wright State University—Lake Campus, April 9, 2011
“The Shadows of Agassiz, Darwin, and Roosevelt in Hemingway’s Formative Years.” Presented at the Hemingway Society International Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 27, 2010
Raymond Walters College (UCBA) Self-Study Report to the Higher Learning Commission. Co-presented with Philip Luther, at Higher Learning Commission Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 11, 2010. (Report co-authored with Philip Luther and Marlene Miner)
“Hemingway, Darwin, and the Problem of God.” Presented at Darwin Symposium, University of Cincinnati, October 31, 2009
“Big Two-Hearted Writer: Hemingway, Darwin, and the Problem of God.” Presented at the Oxford Round Table International Conference, Oxford University, England, July 28, 2009
“In Memory of Those Who’ve Checked Out.” Short Fiction excerpt from my novel Fear, Desire, and Delusion. Presented at Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, Nov. 2, 2001
“Death and Desolation: Bob Dylan’s Apocalyptic Closing Songs, Part Two,” presented at Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 21, 2000
“Arrows on the Doorpost: Bob Dylan’s Parting Shots, Part One,” presented at Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 2, 1999
“Love Sick: Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind,” presented at Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, April 1998
“Backstreets and Open Roads: The Songs of Bruce Springsteen, 1972-85,” presented at Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, April 1989
“Doing It In the Road: Dialectical Dilemmas in the Music of John Lennon,” (with Don O’Meara) presented at Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 1988
“Is Your Love in Vain: Dialectical Dilemmas in Bob Dylan’s Recent Love Songs,” (with Don O’Meara) presented at Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 1987
“George Orwell and 1984,” presented at RWC symposium 1984: Looking Forward, Feb. 15, 1984
“The Walrus and the Deacon: John Lennon’s Debt to Lewis Carroll,” presented at Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, April 1982
“Syntactic Maturity and Grading: A Correlational Study,” presented at the Wyoming Conference on Freshman and Sophomore English, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, July 7, 1981.
INVITED PERFORMANCES AND READINGS (SELECTED)
“Original Songs.” Music performance at Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, MI, May 29, 2025.
“Christmas in Havana.” Music video performance of original Hemingway inspired song. For Hemingway Society “Holidays With Hemingway,” online Christmas gathering, December 19, 2024.
“Unfinished Church.” Music performance at Ernest Hemingway Society International Conference, Bilbao, Spain, July 18, 2024.
“More Hemingway Songs and Others.” Music performance at Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, MI, May 29, 2024.
“Hemingway Songs and Some Others.” Music performance at Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, East Lansing, MI, June 2, 2023.
“A Hemingway Holiday Medley.” Music video performance of original Hemingway inspired songs, words, music, performance, and production by me. For Hemingway Society “Holidays With Hemingway,” online Christmas gathering. December 15, 2022.
Music performance, original Hemingway inspired songs, in concert, Michigan Hemingway Society Annual Conference, Petoskey, Michigan, October 7, 2022.
Music performance, original Hemingway inspired songs, in concert, Hemingway Society International Conference, Sheridan, Wyoming, July 20, 2022.
“Hunger Is Good Discipline.” Music video performance of original Hemingway inspired song, words, music, performance, and production by me. For Hemingway Society “Holidays With Hemingway,” online Christmas gathering. December 18, 2020.
Music performance, original songs: “Caporetto” and “Unfinished Church,” Hemingway Society International Conference, Paris, France, July 23-25, 2018.
Music performance, original song, “Unfinished Church,” Hemingway Society International Conference, Oak Park, Illinois, July 20, 2016.
Music performance, original song: “Rich Man,” UCBA Faculty Convocation, August 19, 2014
Music performance, original songs: “Rich Man” and “Ship of Fools,” UCBA Poetry Café, April 7, 2014
Music Performance, original song, “Grand Design,” UCBA Poetry Café, April 8, 2013
Music Performance, original songs, “Plato’s Slave Boy” and “The Edge of the Abyss,” at UC Blue Ash Humanities Luncheon, October 26, 2011
Reading, excerpt from One Small Town, One Crazy Coach, Ireland, Indiana, Historical Society, March 17, 2013
Reading, excerpt from One Small Town, One Crazy Coach. Ireland, Indiana, Historical Society, July 26, 2008
Reading, excerpt from One Small Town, One Crazy Coach, at UCBA, May 13, 2008
HONORS AND AWARDS
Mid-America Award, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Mid-America Award (2025)
Professor Emeritus of English, University of Cincinnati (2015)
A.B. “Dolly” Cohen Excellence in Teaching Award nomination (2009)
Diversity is Beautiful Award, UC Blue Ash College (formerly Raymond Walters College) (2007)
Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Blue Ash College (formerly Raymond Walters College) (2002)
Who’s Who in the Midwest (1993)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Ernest Hemingway Society
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)